books.google.co.uk - With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored th...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_History_of_the_Oratorio_The_oratorio_i.html?id=Khz3kZNd0Z8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries